Services
Bronze casting
Mold making
Conservation and Restoration
Fabrication and Installation
Sculpture Maintenance
3D Scanning, 3D printing, CNC
Casting
Legacy Atelier specializes in high-quality bronze casting for artists, conservators, and architectural projects. We also cast in aluminum, plaster, and resin.
Mold Making
We provide urethane and silicone rubber molds.
Conservation & Restoration
Legacy Atelier is proud to continue our 30-year collaboration with the area’s top conservators. We also offer sculpture repair and maintenance services directly when appropriate. Legacy Atelier specializes in the reproduction of missing sculptural elements for sculpture conservation and architectural preservation.
Digital Services
We offer digital services, including 3D scanning, file creation from an artist’s concept, 3D printing and CNC. We continue to explore the ever-expanding possibilities of integrating cutting edge technology with traditional casting techniques.
Legacy Atelier continues the 35-year legacy of J.N. Phillips Casting, now as a woman-owned and operated foundry. We are sculptors. We understand the technical and artistic challenges of bringing a project from conception through to completion and installation. Located in a former machine shop in Germantown, Philadelphia, we are able to execute projects large and small, with attention to detail at every step.
Gina Michaels
Gina is a sculptor who has cast her work in bronze for forty years. She met John Phillips in 1993 when she walked into Phillips Casting with a collection of rubber molds. Over the following decades, John and Gina were life partners, close collaborators at Phillips Casting, and in the creation of their bodies of work. Gina has exhibited her work extensively in galleries and public spaces. She holds a BA in Art and Art History from Oberlin College, attended the New York Studio School, and received an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania.
GinaMichaels.com
Tobias Canfield
Toby is highly experienced in sculpture fabrication, with an emphasis on mold-making, bronze casting and welding. He began his professional career at J.N. Phillips Casting, working with John, and with Gina Michaels, fabricating her large bronze sculptures. Tobias then spent ten years working with a firm that specializes in architectural and fine art conservation and restoration. His experience has given him the tools to document, analyze, and assess conditions of architectural materials and fine art objects, identify modes of deterioration and extent of damage, prepare plans for intervention, implement on-site conservation treatments, and document conditions. Tobias studied with John Phillips at the University of the Arts, where he received a BFA.
Morris Jones
Morris began his art career as a graffiti artist, with the walls of Philadelphia as his canvas. He went on to receive a BFA from Philadelphia College of Art (now University of the Arts) in 1983. After graduation he apprenticed and then worked for the Johnson Atelier Technical Institute of Sculpture, where he met John Phillips. At the Atelier, Morris specialized in mold making and wax casting. In addition to his studio practice and work with Legacy Atelier, Morris creates murals and teaches workshops for schools and community centers throughout Philadelphia. Morris uses art as a catalyst to inspire communities about expanded possibilities for children and families in their neighborhoods.
MorrisJonesArtist.com
John N. Phillips
August 12, 1946 – February 20, 2019
After several years of intensive work at the Johnson Atelier Technical Institute for Sculpture, John N. Phillips founded J.N. Phillips Casting in 1985. At the time, it was the only fine art foundry in Philadelphia. Over the following three decades, John was at the forefront of sculpture casting and restoration in Philadelphia. Working with artists and conservators, John and company cast and restored countless works in and around Philadelphia and beyond. From the tower of City Hall, to the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Fairmount Park, Phillips Casting’s work is everywhere in this sculpture-rich city.
PhillipsCasting.comEnvironmental Stewardship
Our electricity is sourced from wind and solar power generated in Pennsylvania. Our gas is from non-fracking sources. We make every effort to conserve and recycle our materials, and to use the lowest impact products available. Bronze in particular is infinitely recyclable. Every scrap goes back in the furnace for the next pour.